Category: Community
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Methods of Study Design – Experiments
We all are familiar with experiments, we read about them in books or newspapers. Researchers/ scientists perform experiments to validate their hypothesis/ statements or to test a new product. Unlike observational studies, experiments are performed in a controlled environment so that the effect of other external factors/variables can be eliminated from it. Let us understand…
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Data Management and Industry: How Data Influences Decisions
Following the creation and massive popularity of the internet and all things digital, it became clear to many that data was soon to be the way of the future. Historically, our use of data could provide us with information that would influence decisions but required extensive work to collect, track, and interpret. With the introduction…
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KDD 2020 Opens Call for Papers
This weeks guest post comes from KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining). Every year they host an excellent and influential conference focusing on many areas of data science. Honestly, KDD has been promoting data science way before data science was even cool. 1989 to be exact. They have opened a call for papers for the…
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Grow Your Business with these Big Data Strategies
We are living in the data-driven world where every industry be it healthcare, finance, omnichannel retail, agriculture, logistics and much more runs on data. The data is one of the key essentials for increasing revenues and cost savings. Data can be considered as a tool that is banked on by the organizations for making smarter…
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Top Companies to work for if you are a data scientist
Checkout the top 5 companies to work for if you are a data scientist based on employee reviews, job satisfaction ratings, and CEO approval.
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#Datathon2018: An online Data Hackathon
Data Science Society is organizing the first ONLINE #Datathon2018 – a 48-hours challenge for all people passionate about data, willing to experiment with new types of data, and expand their network of connections in the field globally. The Online #Datathon2018 The Datathon is one of the initiatives of Data Science Society, happening for the third…
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Julia for Data Science Book
Today brings us a very welcome guest post by Zacharias Voulgaris, author of Julia for Data Science. This is an excellent new book about the Julia language. By reading it you will learn about: IDEs for using Julia Basics of the Julia language Accessing and exploring data Machine learning Advanced data science techniques with Julia…
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Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Software Engineers: The Difference According to LinkedIn
The differences between Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Software engineers can get a little confusing at times. Thus, here is a guest post provided by Jake Stein, CEO at Stitch formerly RJ Metrics, which aims to clear up some of that confusion based upon LinkedIn data. As data grows, so does the expertise needed to…
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Data Science and the Perfect Team
Today, I am proud to welcome a guest post by Claire Gilbert, Data Analyst at Gongos. For more on Gongos, see the description at the end of the post. It’s fair to say that for those who run in business intelligence circles, many admire the work of Fast Forward Labs CEO and Founder Hilary Mason.…
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How to Kickstart Your Data Science Career
This is a guest post from Michael Li of The Data Incubator. The The Data Incubator runs a free eight week data science fellowship to help transition their Fellows from Academia to Industry. This post runs through some of the toolsets you’ll need to know to kickstart your Data Science Career. If you’re an aspiring…
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The Most Popular Skills and Degrees of Today’s Data Scientists
Today, we are lucky to have Daniel Levine of RJMetrics provide a guest post. RJMetrics created an extensive report detailing The State of Data Science. I asked Daniel to provide some results as they relate to the current education of data scientists. Recently, RJMetrics released a benchmark report that looked to answer many of the…